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SHEEP SHEARS.

No. 67,164. Patented July 30, 1867;

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Iettere Patent No. 67,164, dated July 30, 1367.

SHEEP-SHBARS.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I,GEOR-GE W. CARPENTER, of Northville, in the county of Wayne, in the State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful improvement on the common bond Sheep-Shears.

The nature of my invention consists in combining the narrow outside blade A with the crooked brace B, which is formed so as to fit the fore-finger of the helnd grasping the shears, which brace prevents the hand from slipping toward the blade, and at the some time gives brace to the hand and dispenses with the tiresome tight grasping of the handle, thus giving greater liberty in the performance of the work. Also in the addition of the thumb-plate C to the inside blade, at the point where the blade connects with the handle, which thumb-plate fits to the bell of the thumb, which results from continued presure against the back of the blade.

What I claim as my invention is-- The combination of the narrow blade A with the crooked brace B, and the addition of the thumb-plate C.

GEORGE W. CARPENTER. Witnesses:

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W. H. SWIFT. 

